When comparing Stylecow vs Garden (Clojure), the Slant community recommends Stylecow for most people. In the question“What are the best CSS preprocessors/postprocessors?”Stylecow is ranked 6th while Garden (Clojure) is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose Stylecow is:

It's written in node, so you can install it with npm. All available plugins are installed by default and include some development tools like a watcher and a browser live-reload so it don't need more than few seconds to be ready to start to work.

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Easy to install and use

It's written in node, so you can install it with npm. All available plugins are installed by default and include some development tools like a watcher and a browser live-reload so it don't need more than few seconds to be ready to start to work.

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Advanced API and parser

The parser detects any CSS syntax error found. The output code can be customized to follow your own code style rules (indentation, spaces, string quotes, etc). It has a clean and powerfull API, which make easy to create new plugins.

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No need to learn a new syntax

Since Stylecow allows developers to write simple, vanilla CSS, there's no need to learn a whole new language.

Pro

Style webpages with a full programming language

With Garden, you have access to all the core features of a powerful programming language to build your scripts, including functions, variables, namespaces, and data manipulation like map merging or concatenation.

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Full-stack Clojure with ClojureScript for front-end + Clojure for backend

Garden finishes the full Clojure stack experience — you can have the entire codebase in a single language with ClojureScript on the front-end, Clojure on the backend, and Garden for CSS.

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Hot loading

Using the core Garden auto loader or the excellent Garden Gnome plugin, watch your style changes take effect in the browser as soon as you save the code — no reload required.

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Styles as data-nesting are obvious

Clojure is a data-oriented programming language with strong emphasis on simple, clear inline data structures. Garden models styles using these same structures, making the cascade visually obvious.

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Clean syntax

Other options listed include various pain-points like use of @ symbols or too much cruft; because Garden is just Clojure, and Clojure is a very well-designed language aimed to emphasize simplicity and positive developer experience (without semantic whitespace problems), you have the full benefit of a well-designed and general-purpose syntax.

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CSS-engine accessible from front-end

Because Garden is also Clojurescript friendly, this means that you can dynamically effect styles based on app state.

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Cons

Con

May be merged with PostCSS in the future

Since Stylecow is pretty small and hasn't gained a lot of traction in the past 5 or so years since it was first released but also because it serves kind of the same purpose as PostCSS which is much more popular, there have been discussions on merging the two projects together.

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Small community

Stylecow doesn't have a very large community. This can make it difficult to find answers and increases the risk of the project being abandoned.

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Harder to apply shared styles

Because you are working in Clojure, you can't just paste in raw css style snippets shared elsewhere.

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